Have you ever taken a look around your gym to see what the people around you do?
Do you wonder if the workout they do will help you get to your own physical goals faster?
Those are a small number of questions to contemplate as you continue reading this, but the fact of the matter is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than most of the lifts that you see people performing at your gym.
As an example, today a pair in my own gym took it upon themselves to do a selection of exercises working their body from top to bottom, or that is what they believed.
Their workout began with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if massive enough, might make you look like you have no neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a good exercise to do, but if you dig slightly deeper you will find that exercise does little in the way of helping you burn even the most minute of calories.
Let us look at it mathematically. The quantity of work done is the same as the force times the distance you are moving that force and the quantity of times you are moving that force. For instance, if you were going to use 30-pound dumbbells you could move that weight a sum total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles aren't that large thus don't have the range the larger muscle groupings do.
So that 30-pound weight moved three inches, 10 times, gives us a considerable number of 900. The unit of measure at this point is unimportant.
Now lets look at an alternative exercise, the army press. This exercise is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your chin all the way above your head until your arms about completely extended.
For this exercise we only employed the weight of the bar which is 45-pounds. If you make the motion as if you were performing the exercise you might notice the distance that bar is going to travel is around twenty-four inches or more depending on your size, and that was done for an overall total of 10 repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us a number of 10,800- again the unit of measure is unimportant. It only becomes important if we were to calculate that number into calories burned.
On the surface, doing the army press was twelve times more effective than doing a dumbbell shrug, and that was with only the 45-pound bar.
This is one example of one way to see if you are getting the best out of your workout . Many people are oblivious to a couple of the exercises that they opt to do and just do anything that suggests itself. You only have so much energy when you hit the gymnasium floor, make it count and put it towards exercises that may give you the bang for you buck.
Do you wonder if the workout they do will help you get to your own physical goals faster?
Those are a small number of questions to contemplate as you continue reading this, but the fact of the matter is there is always a 'better ' lift to do than most of the lifts that you see people performing at your gym.
As an example, today a pair in my own gym took it upon themselves to do a selection of exercises working their body from top to bottom, or that is what they believed.
Their workout began with some dumbbell shoulder shrugs. That exercise targets the trapezius muscles that, if massive enough, might make you look like you have no neck.
On the surface of things that would appear to be a good exercise to do, but if you dig slightly deeper you will find that exercise does little in the way of helping you burn even the most minute of calories.
Let us look at it mathematically. The quantity of work done is the same as the force times the distance you are moving that force and the quantity of times you are moving that force. For instance, if you were going to use 30-pound dumbbells you could move that weight a sum total of 3 inches maximum. The trapezius muscles aren't that large thus don't have the range the larger muscle groupings do.
So that 30-pound weight moved three inches, 10 times, gives us a considerable number of 900. The unit of measure at this point is unimportant.
Now lets look at an alternative exercise, the army press. This exercise is done with an Olympic bar pressing it from about your chin all the way above your head until your arms about completely extended.
For this exercise we only employed the weight of the bar which is 45-pounds. If you make the motion as if you were performing the exercise you might notice the distance that bar is going to travel is around twenty-four inches or more depending on your size, and that was done for an overall total of 10 repetitions. So 45-pounds, times 24-inches, times ten repetitions gives us a number of 10,800- again the unit of measure is unimportant. It only becomes important if we were to calculate that number into calories burned.
On the surface, doing the army press was twelve times more effective than doing a dumbbell shrug, and that was with only the 45-pound bar.
This is one example of one way to see if you are getting the best out of your workout . Many people are oblivious to a couple of the exercises that they opt to do and just do anything that suggests itself. You only have so much energy when you hit the gymnasium floor, make it count and put it towards exercises that may give you the bang for you buck.
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